Posted on 10/16/2016 1:16:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
After seven years of anemic economic growth, Americans are facing limited job opportunities, stagnant wages, a diminishing middle class and dismal economic prospects for our youth. A recent Pew Research study found young adults more likely to be living in their parents' homes than at any time since 1940 — Hillary Clinton refers to them as Bernie Sanders basement dwellers.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, nearly one in six young men is either jobless or incarcerated, up from about one in 10 in 1980, when the economy was in recession. Gross Domestic Product should be averaging an annual growth rate of 3 percent to 4 percent, particularly coming out of a deep recession. It hasn't happened.
In 2010, the White House projected that GDP growth would "accelerate in 2011 to 3.8 percent" and "exceed 4 percent per year in 2012-2014." However, GDP has averaged about 2 percent since the recession ended, producing the worst economic recovery since World War II.
So far this year, the situation is even worse, with GDP averaging about 1 percent. The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth going forward at a mere 2 percent annually. In fact, the economy is so weak that the Fed is afraid to raise interest rates even one quarter of one percent (0.25 percent). Despite all the hyperbole about the supposed economic recovery, this reticence speaks volumes as to the actual state of the economy.
Working and middle class parents understand these numbers all too well. After seven years of tepid recovery, a recent poll from YouGov found that two out of three Americans believe either that the economy has yet to recover (55 percent) or will never recover (12 percent)....
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Hillary Clinton is the most contrary one can get to our culture. There is no way she can be president anymore than acid can mix with water.
The black population makes up roughly 13% of the US Population 6% has been in some form of incarceration in their life time as an adult. Which limits where they can apply for jobs. Whites have a higher incarceration rate, simply because they are more populous in the USA. Recidivism http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=17
According to the Sentencing Project, even though African American juvenile youth are about 16 percent of the youth population, 37 percent of their cases are moved to criminal court and 58 percent of African American youth are sent to adult prisons. The simple reason is they committed violent and what is deemed ‘Adult’ crimes of rape, murder, armed robbery.
Blacks are 13% of US population 37.6% of prisoners and 71% of shooters in Chicago http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-23/blacks-are-13-us-population-376-prisoners-and-71-shooters-chicago
Some one was not reading government Stats or incorporating them into the low info story line!
As they say, “it’s the economy, stupid”.
Hillary would make things even worse, while Trump will start a true economic recovery for everyone.
We need a massive recovery in the private sector...Clinton’s middle class “investments” will never be enough.
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